On New Years Day, RZA unveiled “Victory or Death,” a reinterpretation of Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” The piece features RZA as George Washington with GZA and ODB by his side on that fateful day. There are also other hidden details that can be found in the painting. RZA collaborated with When Art Imitates [...]

Photos by: Ace Knuckles At Rock the Bells in San Bernadino, it was a great day to be in California. Backdropped by a characteristically Californian 86-degree sun,  hip-hop enthusiasts were blessed with performances from some of Cali’s best: La Coka Nostra, Cypress Hill, Evidence, Alchemist, and Ice Cube.  They shared stages with Nas, Damien Marley, The [...]

Wu Music Group, the new label ran by the administrative mind of Mitchell “Divine” Diggs and the creative force of Wu-Tang Clan’s chief architect, “The RZA”, will release their second album, Afro Samurai: The Resurrection, on January 27th, 2009. The album is the soundtrack to season two of Spike TV’s critically lauded animated television show [...]

  RZA as Bobby Digital Digi Snacks Koch Records Rating: 3/4 Parliament-Funkadelic once sagely recognized that “America Eats Its Young,” but I doubt even those forefathers of rap could’ve predicted how hip-hop would eat its old. While the rock world reveres its veterans (see: Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton), hip-hop’s here-today-gone-tomorrow aesthetic tends to reserve icon [...]